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The pulse of the dog may be felt at the heart, and at the 
inner side of the protuberance of the knee. The range of pul¬ 
sation between a very large and a very small dog, is not less 
than 20. Thus, if 100 be taken as the usual number for the 
former, and 120 for the latter, whatever is found much to exceed 
this may be ascribed to the inflammatory state. 
The following brief rules for the treatment of a few of the 
most common diseases, and injuries to which dogs are liable, 
are from Messrs. Blaine and Youatt. They are all safe, and 
will, I think, be found sure. 
DISTEMPER, OR SPECIFIC CATARRHAL DISEASE. 
The term of distemper, though in itself a very absurd and in¬ 
definite term, has become so conventional that it cannot readily 
be dispensed with, as by this name and no other it is generally 
known. 
Whatever it might have been in the first instance, it is now 
a constitutional canine endemic, from which few individuals 
escape. It is at times epidemical also, and is then peculiarly 
fatal. It greatly varies in form, and, particularly when it assumes 
the shape of an epidemic, has some peculiar characteristic 
type, sometimes tending to diarrhoea, sometimes to epilepsy 
and spasms, and sometimes, the most fatal of all, to a putrid 
habit. 
It is unquestionably contagious, but it is, as I have stated, 
endemical and epidemical also, and it is also self-generated. It 
affects dogs at all ages, from mere puppies of five or six weeks, 
to adults of as many years. It occurs also many times in the 
same individual, and dogs have been known to escape it thrice 
and perish by a fourth attack. This is, however, fortunately, 
uncommon. In the most highly-bred dogs it is the most fatal, 
and I have generally observed it to be especially dangerous to 
the smooth-haired races, as Greyhounds and Bull-terriers. With 
Newfoundland dogs, at times, it makes sad havoc. Its symp¬ 
toms are so various, that it is not easy to set before the reader 
